Pinakothek, Munich: description and reviews. New Pinakothek Ticket prices

The Neue Pinakothek is a fine art museum in Munich, the capital of Bavaria, in southern Germany. The museum contains works of European art from the late 18th to early 20th centuries.

The New Pinakothek was conceived by King Ludwig I of Bavaria as a complement to the Alte Pinakothek. Works of modern art were to be placed here. The New Pinakothek opened in 1853, so it is clear that “modern art” was then called the art of the 18th - 19th centuries.

Ludwig I was not only a passionate collector, he actively supported art in his kingdom. During his reign, Munich became one of the world's art centers. Several art schools and an art academy operated here. Talented domestic artists received scholarships and royal orders. The traditions of wall paintings were revived.

Including, the Neue Pinakothek was supposed to become an exhibition platform for the artists of the Munich School. The New Pinakothek is located in a building located directly opposite the Alte Pinakothek.

>The Neue Pinakothek became the first museum in the world dedicated to modern art.

The museum's exhibitions focused on German art. The first building of the Neue Pinakothek was destroyed by American-British bombing during the Second World War, and it was decided not to rebuild it. In a competition announced in 1967 for the design of a new museum building, architect Alexander Freiherr won.

In 1975, the first stone of a new house for the Neue Pinakothek was laid, and construction was completed only in 1981. The public received the new building made of glass and concrete ambiguously, but they waited too long for the completion of construction, and the critics fell silent.

Today, the Neue Pinakothek houses more than 3,000 paintings and 300 sculptures.

D22 halls and 10 rooms of the museum constantly display 400 exhibits under the general motto: “From Goya to Picasso.”

Paintings in the Neue Pinakothek Munich

During the life of Ludwig I, the rule of the modern national collection of the Neue Pinakothek was strictly observed. Then some of the works of the late 18th century by Spanish and English artists were transferred from the Alte Pinakothek. At the turn of the 20th century, it became inevitable that the influence of impressionism would penetrate into the classical German school of painting, and finally, with the arrival of a new director, Hugo von Schudi, in 1908, it became acceptable for the museum to acquire works by French impressionists.

International art of the second half of the 18th century

Among the masterpieces of the Neue Pinakothek, it is worth mentioning 5 classic works by Francisco de Goya. The painting of the singer of the French Revolution, Jean Louis David, “Portrait of Anna Maria Louise Thélusson de Sorsy,” is revolutionary in its choice, or rather in its rejection of the ceremonial costumes of the nobility and the lush backgrounds of the portraits.

English painting of the late 18th - early 19th centuries

Among the works presented at the Neue Pinakothek, the most notable are the “Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Hibbert” by Thomas Gainsborough and the landscape by William Turner, the forerunner of the Impressionists.

German representatives of classicism and romanticism

The collection of the New Pinakothek widely includes works by classics - Jacob Philipp Hackert, Joseph Anton Koch, Peter von Cornelius, Friedrich Overbeck and other artists who lived in Rome and Nazareth at the monasteries, and in their work sought to return to the origins of Renaissance painting.

The Romantics chose landscape and pastoral painting as the basis of their creativity. One of the brightest representatives of the style is Caspar David Friedrich. Several of his paintings are exhibited at the Neue Pinakothek.

French realism and romanticism

An interesting palette of French schools of realism and romance is represented in the museum by the works of Theodore Gericault, Eugene Delacroix, Jean Francois Millet, Honoré Daumier and others.

Historical and genre painting

German and Austrian artists Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Karl Theodor von Piloty, Franz von Defregger, Hans Makart immortalized everyday scenes of everyday life and historical events in their works.

German impressionists

The most prominent representative of German impressionism is the Berlin artist Max Liebermann. Inspired by the ideas of impressionism, he went to Paris and Barbizon for several years, then became interested in the Hague school of light colors in painting. Lieberman's style emerged from a mixture of these trends. In the Neue Pinakothek you can get acquainted with several works by Liebermann - from early to works of a mature author.

Lovis Corinth and Max Slevogt are the most popular German impressionists after Liebermann. Several of their works from different periods are presented in the Neue Pinakothek.

French impressionists

The names of Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley do not need introduction. Their works can be seen in four halls of the Neue Pinakothek.

It is difficult to imagine that Impressionist paintings, which today are the pride of any museum and cost fabulous amounts of money, were perceived as undesirable at the beginning of the 20th century. Only thanks to the enormous efforts of the then general director of the Neue Pinakothek, 44 paintings and 22 drawings by these masters were accepted as a gift from collectors. The self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh was personally purchased by the director of the museum from the artist's widow in 1919. Unfortunately, in 1938, the Nazis who came to power classified the portrait as “degenerate” art, and it was expelled from the museum.

Symbolism and Art Nouveau

One of the most eye-catching works by Franz von Stuck, Sin, depicts a partially naked woman with a huge snake on her shoulder. Franz von Stuck, teacher of Kazimir Malevich and Gustav Klimt, founder of the Munich “Secession”, an association of artists who did not agree with conservative classical art, opened up new ideas and directions, including modernism, with his works full of symbolism.

The pride of the museum is the works of Gustav Klimt, the brightest representative of the style - “Music” and “Portrait of Margaret Stonborough - Wittgenstein”. In addition, the museum has works by Egon Schiele, Thomas Brown, Francois Carabin.

Works by masters of symbolism, modernism and other modern art movements created in the 20th century are presented in the exhibition of the Pinakothek of Modernity.

Sculptural collection

The Neue Pinakothek presents sculptural works by Bertel Thorvaldsen, Antonio Canova, Rudolf Shadov, Auguste Rodin, Max Klinger, Aristide Maillol, Pablo Picasso.

Operating mode

All Pinakotheks in Munich are open 6 days a week, with days off on different days. The day off at the Neue Pinakothek is Tuesday.

Wednesday - from 10.00. until 20.00.
Thursday - Monday - from 10.00. until 18.00.
Tuesday - the museum is closed.

Special operating hours of the museum:

On Faschingsdienstag, Carnival Tuesday (Faschingsdienstag) - the last Tuesday of Lent according to the Catholic calendar, May 1, December 24 and 25 and January 1 - the museum is closed.
On other holidays the museum operates as usual.

Important information: The New Pinakothek will close for renovation on January 1, 2019. Some of the exhibits will be housed in the Alte Pinakothek from June 2019.

Ticket price

The Neue Pinakothek has several ticket options.

Basic ticket to the Neue Pinakothek:

Adult – 7 euros,
preferential - 5 euros,
on Sunday - 1 euro,
children under 18 years old are free.

Combined tickets:

ticket to five museums for 1 day (Alte Pinakothek, New Pinakothek, Modern Pinakothek, Brandhorst Museum and Schack Collection) - 12 euros,
ticket to five museums for two days with any day of visits (Alte Pinakothek, New Pinakothek, Modern Pinakothek, Brandhorst Museum and Schack Collection) - 29 euros.

Please note: Every Sunday a ticket to the Neue Pinakothek costs only 1 euro. The offer does not include temporary exhibitions and an audio guide.

The following are entitled to purchase a preferential ticket at a discount:

persons over 65 years old upon presentation of a passport,
students upon presentation of an international student card,
students attending language courses at the Goethe Institute upon presentation of their student ID,
groups of 15 people.

How to get to the Neue Pinakothek

By public transport

The New Pinakothek is located in the central part of the city and can be easily reached by any type of public transport.

By tram: routes 27, 28 - to the Pinakothek stop.
By U-Bahn: line U2 to stop Königsplatz or Theresienstraße, line U3 or U6 to stop Odeonsplatz or University, line U4 or U5 to stop Odeonsplatz ). The closest stop to the Neue Pinakothek is the U2 Theresienstrasse stop.
By bus: line 100 Museumslinie or line 58 (CityRing) to the Pinakothek stop.

By car

If you come by car, be prepared that the nearest parking lot is at least one kilometer away.

Parking in the area of the New Pinakothek

Tiefgarage in der Amalienpassage - An underground garage in the Amalien Passage shopping center, designed for 250 places, open 24 hours a day. Address: Türkenstraße 84.

every half hour - 1.50 euros,
the maximum daily rate is 24.00 euros.

Salvator Garage - Surface parking with 365 spaces. Address: Salvatorplatz 1.

1 hour - 3.00 euros,
2 hours - 6.00 euros,
3 hours - 9.00 euros,
4 hours - 12.00 euros,
5 hours - 15.00 euros,
6 hours - 18.00 euros,
24 hours - 20.00 euros.

By taxi

The Neue Pinakothek is easily accessible by Uber or Münchrn Taxi-

Video about the New Pinakothek

Pinakothek (Munich) is one of the most famous world-class art galleries, which presents more than 700 painting masterpieces of the 14th-21st centuries, painted by the most famous masters: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, A. Durer, I. Bosch, Altdorfer, V. Titian , S. Botticelli, F. Goya, etc.

History of the collection

The Old Pinakothek in Munich (Alte Pinakothek) is a popular and famous museum that houses 9 thousand paintings by European artists from the 14th to 18th centuries. The distinctive feature of the museum comes from its name. Pinakothek (Greek: “art gallery”) is a place where exclusively paintings are exhibited.

The collection of paintings began to be collected in 1528 by the Bavarian Duke Wilhelm IV von Wittelsbach, who wanted to decorate the summer pavilion of his Munich residence with paintings based on historical themes. The very first was written “The Battle of Alexander”, dedicated to the battle of Alexander the Great with the Persian army of King Darius. Then other members of the Wittelbach family began to expand the collection.

By the end of the 17th century, the collection became one of the most outstanding in Europe in terms of its significance. In particular, it was supplemented by works by Flemish artists, which were collected by the Bavarian Elector Max Emmanuel (1679-1726).

By the beginning of the 18th century, the museum already had works by outstanding painters from Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. Then there was a further increase in the collection:

in 1777 paintings from the Mannheim Gallery were added to it;
in 1803 - 1,500 works of painting that were previously in churches and monasteries;
1806 - Düsseldorf collections and works from Carlsberg Castle were added.

A separate hall was built in Schleissheim Palace to house the paintings.

Construction of the Pinakothek building

The reign of Ludwig I of Bavaria (1825-1848) is a significant period in the history of the Munich Gallery. At this time, he acquired famous works by German and Dutch artists of the 15th century, and Italian paintings of the Renaissance.

To house such a rich collection, there is already a need to construct a special building and place the works there in chronological order.

Ludwig I decided that his private collection of works of art was worthy of becoming public knowledge so that Munich would be considered a world-famous center for painting and other arts.

The plan of the gallery building was designed by the architect Leo von Klenz in the Renaissance style. The ceremonial laying of the foundation of the building took place in April 1826 on the birthday of Ludwig’s favorite artist, Raphael Santi. The King of Bavaria ordered that the museum be named after the Greek word “pinakothek”.

The Old Pinakothek (Munich) was built already by 1836, and at the same time Ludwig issued a decree on free visits to the museum for everyone on Sundays. However, in the first years, the townspeople did not so much visit the museum as have picnics on the lawn in front of the gallery.

The Old Pinakothek houses exclusively paintings from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Its building is rather gloomy and gray, and the halls inside are also almost undecorated. The complete absence of decoration was done specifically so that visitors would not be distracted from the main purpose of visiting the museum - contemplating the masterpieces of world art.

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the Pinakothek collection continued to expand through the acquisition of works of painting from those times, for which the building of the new Pinakothek was built in 1853.

War and restoration of museums

During the Second World War, the Pinakothek (Munich) was heavily damaged by Anglo-American air raids. The paintings themselves survived because they were stored in underground shelters in advance. The building of the old Pinakothek was restored only in 1963.

But the building of the new Pinakothek (see photo) was almost completely destroyed, and it was not possible to restore it. The New Pinakothek was completely rebuilt according to the design of the architect A. Brancas, and it opened only in 1981.

The building is unusual, has many bay windows and semi-circular window arches, which at one time caused public controversy and different opinions. However, the interior of the halls is magnificent, and the overhead lighting provided by the architect has received especially positive reviews.

Now there are 550 paintings and sculptures from the 19th and 20th centuries on display.

Collections of the Old Pinakothek

The exposition is housed in a two-story building, on the ground floor of which temporary, frequently changing exhibitions take place in the left wing. Among the painters represented by the Old Pinakothek (Munich) are paintings by Flemish and German artists of the 15th-17th centuries: P. Bruegel, L. Cranach and others (right wing).

On the second floor there are collections of the Northern Renaissance: paintings by the Dutchman L. van Leyden, Rembrandt; Durer and S. Lochner; Italian masters Botticelli, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci; Flemish Van Dyck, Rubens.

In the right wing you can see collections of Baroque and Rococo paintings, including El Greco and Murillo, as well as other Italian, French and German artists.

Masterpieces of the Alte Pinakothek

Many works by famous artists are represented by the Old Pinakothek (Munich): masterpieces from the 15th to 18th centuries, each of which has its own history.

For example, the painting “Madonna with a Carnation” was accidentally purchased from a dealer, and only later it turned out that it belonged to the brush of the young Leonardo da Vinci. Now this is the only painting by the master located in Germany. The carnation flower held by the Virgin Mary is a symbol of immortality.

The works of François Boucher “Portrait of Madame de Pompadour” (1758) and “A Girl at Resting” (1752) depict the favorite of Louis 15th, who was a famous beauty with impeccable taste, and Louise O'Murphy, a court lady who in the future also became a favorite king.

Van Dyck's Self-Portrait (1619) and Susanna and the Elders (1622), a master of court portraiture and religious paintings.

The work of P. Rubens “The Last Judgment” (1617) tells about an important event: when people with a story about their lives, committed sins and great achievements appear before God to determine their future fate - the path to heaven or hell. This is one of the largest paintings in world history, measuring 610 x 460 cm, for which the museum hall was specially designed.

In the painting “The Death of Seneca” (1613), the famous Dutch artist P. Rubens talks about a historical fact that happened to the famous thinker Seneca, who was ordered to commit suicide as punishment for betrayal. He listened to this decision with dignity and, together with his wife, prepared to accept his death.

New Pinakothek: history

The New Pinakothek in Munich was founded in 1846 as a continuation of the old one and initially contained works of art from the 18th century. King Otto of Greece continued the work of his father and formed an exhibition of works by artists of the Munich school of painting. The famous landscape painter K. Rothman painted 23 large canvases depicting and dedicated to Greece especially for the gallery.

In 1909, works by French impressionists (Cezanne, Manet, Gauguin, etc.) were added to the collection.

The new Pinakothek contains works of art from the 19th and 20th centuries from the eras of romanticism, classicism and realism. In total, the storerooms contain 3,000 paintings and 300 sculptures, of which 550 paintings and 50 works by sculptors are exhibited in 22 halls.

Paintings of the new Pinakothek

The most famous masterpieces presented by the New Pinakothek (Munich) are paintings:

“Vase with Sunflowers” by V. Van Gogh (1888) is an image of a symbol of optimism and human creativity, a gift to the viewer of a small piece of the sun.
“The Poor Poet” by K. Spitzweg (1839) - describes the disorder and strange situation in the home of a lonely poet, so carried away by his work that he does not see his surroundings.

“After the Storm Night” by Y. K. K. Dahl (1819) - the picture is saturated with the consequences of the crash left after the storm, and, at the same time, glorifies rebirth in the form of a ray of light.
“Don Quixote” by Honoré Daumier (1868) symbolizes the loneliness of the hero, whom the artist deliberately painted without a face.

Pinakothek of Modernity

The third, most modern part of the gallery (opened since 2002) is the Pinakothek of Modernity (Munich), which is dedicated to contemporary arts. It includes 4 independent museums:

A collection of contemporary art, part of the Bavarian Painting Collection.
State Museum of Applied Arts.
Architectural Museum - tells mainly about the 19th-21st centuries, the exhibition changes frequently (500 thousand drawings and plans created by architects at different times, as well as 100 thousand photos of architectural solutions).
State Graphic Collection of Munich (350 thousand engravings and 45 thousand drawings).

The building of the Pinakothek of Modernity was erected according to the design of the architect S. Braunfels with private donations. It is spacious and bright, in its center there is a two-spherical rotunda, from which wide staircases diverge in two directions, directing visitors to the exhibition.

The underground part houses a design collection; the 1st floor houses architectural and graphic collections, as well as temporary exhibitions.

The western wing contains a collection of classical modernism, the eastern wing talks about the trends of modern art: expressionism, cubism, fauvism, Bauhaus, surrealism, pop art, minimalism, etc.

All collections were assembled in the second half of the 20th century as donations from collectors donated to the museum. The latest gift is a collection of German and North American art from the 1960s to the 1990s. - was transferred in 2006 by E. and M. Stoffel.

The collection includes works by famous artists: A. Matisse, F. Léger, Salvador Dali, P. Picasso, etc. There is also a room with photographic works by contemporary photographers.

Pinakotheks in Munich: opening hours, prices

All three Pinakotheks are located close to each other, on Sunday the price is 1 €, but on this day the museums are crowded with tourists.

Addresses: Barer Straße 27, 29, 40, Munich (Pinakothek). Opening hours:

Old - 10.00 to 18.00, Tuesday to 20.00, closed Monday.
New - 10.00 to 18.00, Wednesday to 20.00, closed Tuesday.
Pinakothek of Modernity - from 10.00 to 18.00, on Thursday until 20.00, seven days a week.

On ordinary days, the price at the Pinakothek varies:

Old – ticket price 4 €.
New – 7 €.
Pinakothek of Modernity – 10 €.

The New Pinakothek (German: Neue Pinakothek) is an art gallery in Munich. It presents works of painting and sculpture by masters of the 19th - early 20th centuries. Opposite the New Pinakothek is the Alte Pinakothek with works by masters from the Middle Ages to the mid-18th century. The third Pinakothek of Munich - the Pinakothek of Modernity - presents art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The gallery was founded in 1853 by Bavarian King Ludwig I, who wanted to make his private collection of modern art available to the public by housing it in the Alte and Neue Pinakothek. The Neue Pinakothek is thus the first “contemporary art collection” in the world. The boundary between old and new art established at the turn of the century became the defining one for German art galleries. In accordance with the artistic preferences of Ludwig I, initially the majority of the exhibition consisted of works by the Munich school of painting and the German romantics. Particular attention was paid to southern German artists and art schools. However, while building the museum, Ludwig also satisfied his dynastic ambitions by exhibiting in the main hall of the Neue Pinakothek heroic landscapes of Greece by Karl Rothmann, where Ludwig’s son Otto I of Greece reigned. After Ludwig's death, the collection grew with new famous paintings, but the situation with the selection of exhibits changed very slowly in Munich. The situation changed only in 1909, when the so-called “Tschudi donations” followed, named after the general director of the Munich State Painting Collection Hugo von Tschudi, who paid great attention to modern French paintings that were not held in high esteem at that time. artists. Thanks to him, the Neue Pinakothek acquired an impressive collection of impressionists. However, in 1938, Van Gogh's Self-Portrait was classified as degenerate art, confiscated and sold a year later. The collection of the Neue Pinakothek is currently being replenished thanks to voluntary donations and acquisitions and is one of the largest exhibitions of art of the late 18th-19th centuries.

Having rejected several places for the construction of a new gallery building, Ludwig I ordered the construction of the New Pinakothek opposite the Alte Pinakothek. The project was created by Friedrich von Gaertner and August von Voith. During World War II, the Neue Pinakothek building was completely destroyed and was soon demolished. The exhibition of the New Pinakothek is located in the House of Art. It was only in 1981 that the postmodern building, designed by the architect Baron Alexander von Branca, opened. Although the sandstone-clad building with its bay windows, emergency staircases and semi-circular arched windows was not received well, its magnificent, skylit rooms were universally acclaimed. The Dörner Institute is located in the western wing of the Neue Pinakothek building.

The New Pinakothek was founded by Ludwig of Bavaria. He decided to open his private collection to the people. In 1848, the king initiated the construction of the building - it was decided to build it opposite the Alte Pinakothek. The Neue Pinakothek gallery opened in 1853 in Munich.

The New Pinakothek was founded by the “moon king” - a romantic ruler Ludwig of Bavaria. He decided to open his private collection to the people. In 1848, the king initiated the construction of the building - it was decided to build it opposite the Alte Pinakothek. The project was made by August Voith And Friedrich Gertner.

The gallery opened in 1853 in Munich.

At that time it was the first collection of modern painting. The exhibition presented works by Munich painters and German romantic artists. Unlike the meeting Old Pinakothek, sculptures were also exhibited here. The art in the gallery was covered rather one-sidedly. Even after the death of the king, the collection continued to grow, but the directions did not change.

Since 1915, the museum began to belong to the state. Changed the situation in the gallery Hugo von Tschudi- Director of the State Collection of Paintings of Munich. At the beginning of the 20th century, French painting had no authority in the art world and was poorly covered by criticism. Tschudi decided to popularize French art and acquired a large collection of paintings for the museum. impressionists.

The Bavarian public saw the paintings Manet and Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh. Unfortunately, Van Gogh's Self-Portrait was subsequently lost to the gallery - it was sold in 1938. The famous painting “Sunflowers” has been preserved and can still be seen today in the Pinakothek.

The New Pinakothek now occupies a different building than the one intended for it by King Ludwig. During World War II, the gallery was completely destroyed. The building had to be demolished, and the exhibition was moved to the Art House on Prinzregentenstraße.

It was not until March 1981 that the Neue Pinakothek was reopened as a separate museum. The construction of this building was led by the architect Alexander von Branchi— he tried to ensure that the form of the building corresponded to the content. The postmodern appearance of the gallery was received ambiguously by the public, but the new museum quickly won the sympathy of visitors thanks to its spacious halls and well-organized lighting.

The exhibition of the Neue Pinakothek serves as an intermediate link between the collection of antique paintings of the Alte Pinakothek and the collection of art nouveau from the Pinakothek of Modernity (now located in the House of Art). It covers the period of the late 18th – early 20th centuries: from Jacques Louis David and Goya- before Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas and Claude Monet.

In total, the museum's collections contain about 4.5 thousand paintings and 300 sculptural works (sculptures are collected here Thorvaldsen, Canova, Auguste Rodin). 400 works, divided by direction and chronology, are presented to the public in 33 halls.

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Germany has a rich history and there are a large number of museums in the country. An amazing collection of paintings from different periods is presented in the famous art galleries of Munich - three Pinakotheks. The Neue Pinakothek in Munich - a collection of more than 3,000 paintings and 300 sculptures from the Enlightenment to the beginning of Art Nouveau - is a link between the Alte Pinakothek (presenting paintings by artists from the Middle Ages to the 18th century) and the Pinakothek of Modernity (showing works by masters of the second half of the 20th and 21st centuries).

The history of the creation of the Neue Pinakothek in Munich

The Bavarian King Ludwig I of the Wittelsbach dynasty (1786-1868, reigned from October 13, 1825 to March 20, 1848), an art collector and patron of the arts, wanted to make his private collection of modern paintings available to the public. And he realized his plan.

On October 25, 1853, opposite the building of the Alte Pinakothek (translated from Greek as “repository of paintings”), the New Pinakothek was opened - an art gallery with works by contemporary masters of that time. It was the first museum of modern art in Europe.

The basis of the collection of the Neue Pinakothek were paintings by German artists, most of whom adhered to the romantic movement in painting.

Another part of the exhibition included works from the Munich school of painting. In the main hall of the gallery, paintings by the famous landscape painter Karl Rothmann, dedicated to Greece (since Otto I, the second son of Ludwig I, was a Greek king), were displayed.
The “Rothmann Hall” occupied a central place in the collection of artistic works of the Bavarian king and today you can see such a hall in the gallery. After the death of Ludwig I in 1868, the Neue Pinakothek collection consisted of 425 paintings.
Architecture of the Neue Pinakothek building

The initial project was developed by German architects Friedrich von Gärtner and August von Voit, and the gallery was laid out on October 12, 1846. It was a huge, rectangular building with almost no windows, with a central nave that rose above two side ones. The second floor of the building was decorated with frescoes that demonstrated the charitable activities of Ludwig I.
In 1944, the Neue Pinakothek building and the frescoes were destroyed, but the paintings from which they were painted have survived to this day and are presented in the gallery. Since the destruction of the building during military bombing was very significant, the city administration decided to demolish the building and build a new one in its place.
Since 1947, the museum's paintings have been shown in the House of Art (Haus der Kunst) and in temporary exhibitions. The Glaspalast fire in 1931 destroyed the palace and 110 paintings during an exhibition of works by German novelists. This was a significant loss of a collection of valuable paintings.
Only 30 years later, a new building of the famous gallery was laid, designed by Alexander von Branck.
On March 28, 1981, the New Pinakothek opened to visitors. Built in the neo-modern style, the building with bay windows (parts of the room protruding beyond the plane of the facade), semi-circular arches and emergency staircases may not look very harmonious for some, but its spacious interior halls with overhead lighting have received the approval of connoisseurs of the paintings presented there.
Art collection of the Neue Pinakothek

Until 1909, the gallery's collection was replenished with works only by German artists, according to the preferences of the founding king, Ludwig I. In the same year, thanks to the persistence of the General Director of the Bavarian State Collection of Paintings, Hugo von Tschudi, many interesting works by impressionist artists of France were purchased. Thus, the museum’s fund began to own a significant collection of contemporary paintings.
By 1913, the gallery had 1,100 paintings, some of which were owned by the state, and the other by the royal court.

However, in 1938, paintings by Western European impressionist artists, who were not favored at that time, were removed from the collection of the Neue Pinakothek for an exhibition of “shameful” art. Among the famous works seized was Van Gogh's famous Self-Portrait, which was sold and never returned to the walls of the Neue Pinakothek.
For the convenience of visitors, the museum’s exposition is divided into schools, periods, and countries. More than 550 works of art are constantly on display here.

The collection of paintings of the Neue Pinakothek of the second half of the 18th and early 19th centuries includes works by such famous masters:
almost all significant artists of England: William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Lawrence, George Romney, David Wilkie, John Constable, William Turner (“Ostende”, 1844) and others;

Spanish artist and engraver Francisco Goya (“Country Walk”, 1776, “The Plucked Turkey”, ca. 1810), French painter and teacher Jacques Louis David (“Portrait of Anna Maria Louise Telusson de Sorcy”, 1790), German artists of Swiss origin Angelica Kaufmann (“Self-Portrait”, 1784), Anton Graf (“Henry XIII”, 1775), Swiss painter Johann Heinrich Füsli (“Satan and Death, Separated by Sin”, 1792-1802), German artist and portrait master Johann Friedrich August Tischbein ( “Nicolas Chatelain in the Garden”, 1791);

German classics Jacob Philipp Hackert, Joseph Anton Koch, Ludwig Richter, Friedrich Overbeck (“Italia und Germania”, 1828), Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, Heinrich Maria von Hess and Peter von Cornelius;

German romantics Caspar David Friedrich (“Riesengebirgslandschaft mit aufsteigendem Nebel”, 1819/20), Johann Christian Dahl, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Karl Blechen and others;

artists in the Biedermeier style (an offshoot of romanticism that replaced the Empire style; characterized by a subtle, careful depiction of the interior, nature and everyday details) - Domenico Quaglio, Franz Xavier Winterhalter, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Moritz von Schwind and Carl Spitzweg (“The Poor Poet”, 1839 );

French realists and romanticists Theodore Gericault, Eugene Delacroix, Jean-François Millet, Honoré Daumier (Melodrama, 1856-1860), Gustave Courbet and others;

German realists Wilhelm Leibl, Franz von Lenbach, August Seidel and Adolf von Menzel (“Wohnzimmer mit Menzels Schwester”, 1847), impressionists Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, Fritz von Uhde, Maria Slafon and Max Slevogt;

The gallery's valuable assets include works by French impressionist artists Claude Monet (Bridge over the Seine at Argenteuil, 1874), Edouard Manet (Breakfast at the Atelier, 1868), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas (Die Büglerin) , 1869), Alfred Sisley and the post-impressionists Paul Gauguin (“Landscape of Martinique”, 1887), Paul Cézanne (“Stillleben mit Kommode”, 1883-1887), Vincent Van Gogh (“Sunflowers”, 1888, the painting was acquired in 1912 from an anonymous donor as part of the “donation of Hugo von Tschudi”), Georges Pierre Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

The fund of 20th century painting consists of works by such famous masters as the founder of Austrian Art Nouveau Gustav Klimt, the Belgian artist and graphic artist James Ensor, the French Maurice Denis, Edouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, the Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler, the German sculptor and painter Franz von Stuck, the Norwegian painter and graphic artist Edvard Munch.
In the New Pinakothek, in addition to artistic paintings, you can see a sculptural exhibition of the 19th and early 20th centuries, which is represented by works by Bertel Thorvaldsen (“Adonis”, 1802-1832), Antonio Canova (“Statue of Paris”, 1807-1816), Rudolf Schadow, Auguste Rodin , Max Klinger, Aristide Maillol and Pablo Picasso.

Today, the New Pinakothek continues to expand its collections; there are even donations and help from true art connoisseurs.
Alte Pinakothek in the Museum Quarter of Munich

The Alte Pinakothek is considered one of the most famous galleries in the world. The development of artistic art from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Baroque and the end of the Rococo period is most fully represented here.
The permanent exhibition consists of 700 paintings by famous German, Flemish, Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish artists, including Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Durer, Bosch, Rembrandt, Rubens. A famous masterpiece of that time is “The Battle of Alexander the Great with King Darius,” made by the German master of paintings Altdorfer in 1529.
Most of the Alte Pinakothek's collection of paintings was collected mainly by representatives of the Wittelsbach dynasty, which ruled Bavaria for 700 years (1180-1918).

An interesting fact is that one of her descendants still lives in Nymphenburg Palace in Munich. And the interiors of the palace are real works of art.